April 4 (UPI) -- Airports and airlines suffered through thousands of flights being canceled to and from Florida this past weekend because of severe weather.
Florida is currently one of the country's most popular destinations because of spring break vacations. Mother Nature, though, had other plans for some travelers. More than 3,600 flights were canceled on Sunday after more than 4,000 had been canceled on Saturday.
Southwest Airlines pointed to technical issues as well as the weather for its problems on Saturday.
"We are experiencing flight disruptions across our network today due to briefly pausing our service earlier this morning as we worked to resolve an intermittent technology issue, as well as ongoing weather challenges impacting multiple areas within our system," the carrier said in a Twitter post.
According to the website FlightAware, on Sunday, budget airliner Spirit, which has flights to many Florida vacation destinations, canceled 37% of its flights on Sunday. Jet Blue canceled 34% of its flights and Frontier 15%.